★Ozato Record

Big Tip! New Torso!  Gloriously mature and engrossing movements for cello, flute and tape self-released from the Japanese duo on their Ozato label. It’s hard to write anything about Torso’s music without giving the impression that this is polite, nicely buttoned-up contemporary classical dishwater.  It isn’t.  The same constituents are there - bowed cello, shimmering flute, woody upright bass and expensive-sounding reed instruments.  Yet the arrangements take cues from addictive indie-pop struct…